While Prust and Carcillo won't be in the lineup for a couple games, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault couldn't did say how long he expected Stepan to be out, although he said it's "unlikely" Stepan will be in the lineup on Sunday.

"Call it whatever you want," Vigneault said when asked about Stepan's status.

But center Rangers Derick Brassard declared himself ready to return after he missed the last two games with what was described as an upper-body injury. He said he would have played in Game 3, but he wasn't at 100 precent.

"I haven't spoken to him yet, but I was told that he cleared himself to you guys, so that's good news," Vigneault said. "I'll talk to him probably tomorrow and find out and make sure everything's good. Players at this time want to play, and we've got to make sure that everything's alright."

Stepan is third on the Ranges in the playoff scoring (11 points). He picked an assist as the Rangers fell in OT, 3-2, after he was blindsided by Prust a couple minutes into regulation. (No penalty was called on the play.) Stepan went into the locker room briefly and his broken jaw didn't show up on X-rays Thursday night. An MRI on Friday revealed the injury.

"The first two (games), nothing really like that happened," Rangers forward Brad Richards said of the physical play in Game 3. "The most unfortunate thing is Step had surgery yesterday and who knows where that goes, and that's not a good injury to have a broken jaw."